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 "and tell me what you want. Is there alarm?"

"Na, sir; but I hae brought ane to speak wi' you."

"Who is that, Cuddie?" enquired Morton.

"Ane o' your auld acquaintance," said Cuddie; and, opening the door more fully, he half led, half dragged in a woman, whose face was muffled in her plaid.—"Come, come, ye need na be sae bashfu' before auld acquaintance, Jenny," said Cuddie, pulling down the veil and discovering to his master the well-remembered countenance of Jenny Dennison." Tell his honour now—there's a braw lass—tell him what ye were wanting to say to Lord Evandale, mistress."

"What was I wanting to say," answered Jenny, "to his honour himsel the other morning, when I visited him in captivity, ye muckle hash?—D'ye think that folk dinna want to see their friends in adversity, ye dour croudy-eater?"